Topos Institute
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US/UK-based non-profit research institute. We shape technology for public benefit by advancing sciences of connection and integration. Our goal is a world where the systems that surround us benefit us all. https://topos.institute
Topos Institute is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to study and publish about categorical statistics from the viewpoint of categorical logic, or the foundations of categorical logic itself from the viewpoint of double category theory, to be based in Berkeley, CA topos.institute/community/
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Call for Applications: 2026 Summer RAs This year there are two tracks for Summer RAs: a research track and an engineering track. Positions are available for 8-10 weeks each, starting in June and ending in August. For more details, see our website: topos.institute/community/jo...
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Two new jobs open at Topos Oxford: - Director of UK Operations (topos.institute/community/jo...) - Postdoc in compositional conceptual modelling (topos.institute/community/jo...) If you're interested in applying, or know somebody who might be, then please do share!
We’re excited to welcome B. Scot Rousse, a philosopher of technology, to Topos! Drawing on Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, he’ll be joining our work on collective sense-making and AI. He also recently spoke at our colloquium on Language, Technology, and Care.
Check out our latest blog post by Hamidah Oderinwale, diving into the future of library reform! She tackles key issues like version control, preserving procedural knowledge, and ensuring reproducibility in research. How can we rethink documenting discovery?
Thank you to Eric Gilliam for profiling Topos in FreakTakes! Brendan discusses our mission of collective modelling, highlights projects like CatColab and safeguarded AI research with ARIA, and announces an exciting operations role at our Oxford office.
🎉 Announcing CatColab 0.2: Wren! CatColab is a structured model editor for visualizing complex systems with domain-specific logics. Since October, we've implemented: - Users & permissions - Enhanced docs - New theories (e.g. Discrete exterior calculus) - and more!
Every Thursday, we organize virtual colloquiums where we invite speakers to share their work. Yesterday, we hosted Andrew Dudzik, a research scientist @GoogleDeepMind, who discussed his research on Tensor Species, a category theory-based approach to designing neural networks.
🎉 Announcing CatColab 0.2: Wren! CatColab is a structured model editor for visualizing complex systems with domain-specific logics. Since October, we've implemented: - Users & permissions - Enhanced docs - New theories (e.g. Discrete exterior calculus, causal loop diagrams) - and more!
If you're looking for a weekend read. Our 2024 Summer RA, C.B. Aberlé, has a post on the Topos site on polynomial universes and natural models.
We have finally combined our two websites into a single website: everything is now at topos.institute , but every link to a page on topos.site should now automatically 301 redirect to the corresponding page on topos.institute. Let us know if you have any problems!
Topos Institute
Our goal is a world where the systems that surround us benefit us all
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